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Last week, nearly a month after the Ellen Pao trial began, the jury in the case found that her former employer, Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, was not guilty on four counts of gender discrimination and not guilty on one count of wrongful termination.

In this four part series, FierceCIO takes a look at the continual controversy surrounding the H-1B foreign worker program, including who gets the visas, who hires the workers, and what the impacts are on the technology workforce in the U.S.

It would seem that any potential source of new IT talent would be a welcome relief. But that hasn't been the case with the nation's only active IT apprenticeship program, which several months after its launch has failed to attract a single corporate employer.

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